Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, of Fra Mauro
Sacro Bosco by Fra Mauro: Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, con molte notande additioni di geometria, cosmographia, arte navicatoria
Type of object:
Book & Prints
Time period:
Portugal & Spanje
Place:
Venice
Date:
1537
Maker / Author:
Juan Ortega de Carrión,
Publisher / Printer:
Bartolomeo Zanetti
Dimensions:
204 x 146 mm
Material:
With many woodcut prints on paper; 18 cent. cove
Graduation:
120 pages
Inscription:
none
Provenance:
Steven White collection
References:
Wikipedia southern Cross https://archive.org/details/spheravolgarenov00sacr_0/page/n7/mode/2up
Description
First Italian edition, Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta.
Lacking final two leaves, often lacking: consisting of the errata and a volvelle woodcut; translation by Marco Mauro illustrated with cosmographically-themed woodcut title page border, large full-paged woodcut on verso of title showing the translator at work, his desk a globe, with another globe on a stand in the background, a ship at sea in the window, sun and moon in the sky, with tools of astronomy and navigation in the surrounding border; full-paged woodcut arms of Charles V on the second leaf, numerous text illustration. Very early printed instructions about the use of the Southern-cross for the navigation.
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